Wild Things Artwork
by Patsy Lindamood

7"H x 10.5"W Colored Pencil and Water Soluble Wax Pastel on Ampersand Pastelbord. This piece will be part of an invitational exhibition at Melrose Bay Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Nov - Dec 2009.

A quick perusal of my web site will reflect that most of my work is large, with many pieces upwards of 24 x 36. A 2009 call to members of the Society of Animal Artists for an exhibition and sale of small works at The Wildlife Experience in Parker, CO, however, ignited a new passion for me - working small! My small works, however, are all of small creatures, so in most cases the creatures depicted in them are close to life-size. All these works are being executed with color pencil and water soluble wax pastel. The paintings are then sealed with a matte UV Clear Acrylic finish, followed by coats of Krylon Triple Thick, then more UV Clear Acrylic. The final result is a well-protected colored pencil work that can be framed without glass and that has the appearance of an acrylic painting.

"Rice Paper Butterfly" is based on photography I did at The Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Composition was critical for this little gem. I did not want a "specimen" style of pose for the butterfly. Instead, I wanted to depict a butterfly behavior which would include a typical butterfly habitat as well. This piece is filled with lots of interesting intersections or "v's" which are accentuated by the complementary colors of red and green intersecting with each other. Butterfly bodies are based on a "v" shape - wings that intersect with a long, cylindrical section.